Nodal officers of various govt departments will get in touch to ensure that the all applications are processed and cleared within 30 days
Tamil Nadu government
Chennai: Extending its commitment to investors, Tamil Nadu government had formed a high-level team comprising five IAS officers led by additional chief secretary C.V. Shankar to facilitate the Rs 2.4 lakh crore MoUs signed during the global investors meet. The state has been segregated into four industry regions to be monitored by four escort officers.
A recent government order named four officers M.S. Shanmugham, additional secretary, industries department, two deputy secretaries Hanish Chhabra and G. Latha of industries department and Sipcot managing director R. Selvaraj as the escort officers for central, northern, western and southern districts. To assist the escort officers and investors, nodal officers of various government departments will get in touch to ensure that the all applications are processed and cleared within 30 days of stipulated time under single window clearance system, industry department sources said.
To a query on World Bank report ranking TN to a distant twelfth position in business index, a senior official wondered on how states like Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh were positioned above TN.
“I don’t know on what parameters the World Bank assessed TN. The state is the second largest when it comes to GDP contribution to India. Usually such survey includes distribution of land at huge subsidized rates and special tax discounts as parameters. Remember TN is a market leader and that’s the reason why World Bank chose its back up office of its Washington headquarters in Chennai.
TN was World Bank’s first choice in early 2000 and in 2012, they expanded the Chennai branch handling several value-added operations that were earlier handled only in its Washington D.C office. “But ranking a developed state below the developing states is just funny,” the official said wishing not to be quoted.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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